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Tuesday evening Premier League games being shown on more than one channel (excluding Ultimate)

Brucemeister5 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:24:50 GMT

I notice that 3 matches being shown on Tuesday evening are going to be on more than one channel. Is there any particular reason for this? None of them are what I would consider to be particularly high profile matches either. I remember when matches were being played behind closed doors we had the option of commentary with fake crowd noise on one channel and commentary with natural stadium sounds on one of the extra channels. Is anything similar being done here, I wonder. I would like to have the option of just the stadium sounds with no commentary, for instance.

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Anonymous — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:33:10 GMT

BT acquired the rights to an entire round of EPL games that will be played/broadcast Tuesday-Thursday.

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Brucemeister5 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:38:08 GMT

Yes, I’m aware of that, but why are 3 games being shown on more than one channel on Tuesday? Are BT Sport just duplicating coverage or will something different/additional be offered on the higher numbered channel?

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DarrenDev — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:41:29 GMT

Looks like an EPG error - the schedule I have shows different matches on the extra channels

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zulu17 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:44:32 GMT

Historically BT did this when they had subscribers who had lite type packages whereby they had BT Sport 1 and access to the extra channels or red button but not the full BT Sport 2, 3,4 in their package so all the Premier League games would be accessible.

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Brucemeister5 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:49:57 GMT

BT Sport 5,6 & 7 are duplicating Premier League games and the Serie A matches are being shown on 8 & 9 on Tuesday. I’m not aware of any different matches that BT Sport has the rights to.

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TheRealBudski — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:01:49 GMT

I’m seeing the same

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DarrenDev — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:16:50 GMT

Sorry, you're right - my schedule still has them under their old names so I was seeing Extra 4 and Extra 5, which are now 8 and 9.
I've asked if anyone knows why they're being duplicated, but with it being a public holiday I'm not expecting any response today.

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DarrenDev — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:16:13 GMT

OK, so the streams will be the same video and audio feed. They're on the main channels to provide the full HD feed, but for contractual reasons (that I'm not going to pretend to understand) these particular matches also needed to be provided in the "standard" quality offered on the channels formerly known as Extra.

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Brucemeister5 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:13:44 GMT

Ok, thanks for clarifying that (on a Bank Hoilday too). I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing out on any additional features that may have been available. I can now just choose to watch/record whichever matches I want to.

I do note, however, that the same contractual reasons don’t seem to apply on Wednesday when most of the big clubs are playing and the higher numbered channels are being used to show Ligue 1 and Serie A.

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DarrenDev — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:17:46 GMT

Agreed, which is why I've said I don't understand it. I've never known us do this before.
The wider team will be back tomorrow - I'm hoping one of them will be able to explain it better to me.

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Brucemeister5 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:30:20 GMT

On Wednesday night you’ll have an amazing 10 live football matches all showing at the same time( allowing for a small variation in k.o times). I don’t think you have ever done that before. That’s what makes me think that what’s happening on Tuesday might be some sort of trial run to make sure that there aren’t any capacity issues.